Indian Railways At a Glance

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Indian Railways is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and operated by the Government of India through the Ministry of Railways. It is one of the world’s largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km and 7,112 stations.

Railways were first introduced to India in the year 1853 from Mumbai to Thane

Indian Railways Nationalised in 1951

The country’s first railway, built by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway

The Indian railway system is the largest in Asia and fourth in the world based on rail transport network size after USA, China and Russia

It is the biggest employer in the world and the largest single undertaking in the country

It has the second biggest electrified system in the world after Russia

Indian Railways is divided into 16 zones.which are further sub-divided into 68 divisions